The drug is so potent, it can cause a fatal overdose just through skin absorption. May 4, 2017 ATLANTA - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a drug is so dangerous, if someone touches it they could die. Numbers just released show a drug called furanyl fentanyl, which the Drug Enforcement Administration website calls a synthetic opioid, caused ...

GBI investigation that uncovered missing money and drug evidence Enter Article DATE HERE When Jasper County Sheriff Donnie Pope hired Michael Barrett about three years ago, the U.S. Navy veteran already had law enforcement experience. Until late last month, Barrett, 39, was an investigator and evidence custodian for Pope's office in Monticello...

"It's very upsetting to me when an officer crosses that line," March 6, 2017 TUCKER, Ga. – A DeKalb County Police officer is behind bars after being charged with several crimes related to an incident over the weekend. According to the DeKalb County Police Department, officer Ajamia Guyton has been charged with theft by taking, tampering with eviden...

Evidence from at least 14 sexual assault kits long stored at Atlanta hospitals for children — and in some cases forgotten — matched DNA samples collected from convicted criminals and stored in a national data base. November 29, 2016 Evidence from at least 14 sexual assault kits long stored at Atlanta hospitals for children — and in some cases forgo...

Nawolski pleaded guilty to charges of felony possession of hydrocodone, forgery, and theft by taking of oxycodone. November 16, 2016 VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) - A person who controlled evidence at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Regional Crime Lab is charged with taking drugs from the facility. The discrepancy was discovered during an internal audit at the e...

The GBI reports receiving 541 kits in July and 1,994 kits in August, from both older and more recent cases. That's in addition to more than 3,000 active cases the crime lab was already processing, according to GBI August 1, 2016 DEKALB COUNTY, GA (CBS46) - The deadline has passed for untested sexual assault kits to be submitted to the Geo...

"It appears that these drugs were taken for personal use," he said Enter Article DATE HERE A veteran Cherokee County sheriff's deputy was arrested Saturday after he confessed to stealing drugs from the evidence room, authorities said. Jeffrey Goettel, 41, of Jasper, was charged with violation of oath of office, possession of a schedule II narc...

Among those indicted are two Aragon Police Officers accused last year of stealing handguns from the evidence room in separate incidents in 2013 and 2015. July 19, 2016 Polk County's Grand Jury convened to hear dozens of cases and decide whether to move them on to trial and came back with 56 true bills of indictment in the Tallapoosa circuit courts....

The statement says the GBI was called in to investigate in August 2015 after the sheriff's office "discovered irregularities in their evidence room June 11, 2016 HOMER, Ga. — A former prosecutor in northeast Georgia has been arrested on theft charges. The Athens Banner-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1XfO902 ) 32-year-old Samuel Elias Skelton is char...

The Macon Telegraph (Georgia)BYLINE: PHILLIP RAMATI; , GAMacon police have closed an eight-year-old rape cold case with the arrest of a Columbus, Ohio, man who has been charged with raping a 13-year-old ...

The Athens Banner-Herald, OnlineAthens, onlineathens.comBYLINE: ERIN FRANCE - to ArticleMadison County, GAELBERTON - A former Madison County Sheriff's Office investigator pleaded guilty to tak...

BYLINE: Chuck Poullard, Fulton County Crime ExaminerLink to ArticleChattahoochee Hills, GACheif resigns under GBI Investigation - Photo: Fox 5 AtlantaThe Police Chief of Chattahoochee Damon Jones resigned Wednesday morning ef...

The Augusta Chronicle, chronicle.augusta.comBYLINE: Associated PressMacon, GAMACON, Ga. — Records show that more than $1,500 has disappeared from an evidence safe in the Macon Police Department’s crime lab.The Telegraph repor...

Gwinnett Daily Post, gwinnettdailypost.comBYLINE: Associated PressTattnall County, GASTATESBORO — Officials in the U.S. Attorney's office say a former Tattnall County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to nine years in priso...

The Augusta Chronicle, chronicle.augusta.comBYLINE: Meg Mirshak, Staff WriterSardis, GABurkeA former Sardis, Ga., policeman fatally shot early Monday after apparently breaking into a police station evidence room was identifie...

Ledger-Enquirer, ledger-enquirer.comBYLINE: JIM MUSTIANLink to ArticleFort Benning, GAA former evidence custodian with the military police was sentenced last week to six months in federal prison for stealing about $1,300 that...

The Telegraph, macon.comBYLINE: JIM GAINES — to ArticleMacon, GAVague records, easy access drew auditor’s warningA review of security at the Police Department’s evidence room found there was no way to te...

The Daily Tribune News, daily-tribune.comBYLINE: Jason LowreyLink to ArticleKingston, GAKingston Interim Police Chief Clay Patterson has made numerous strides in reorganizing the Kingston police department in an effort to pre...

Ledger-Enquirer, ledger-enquirer.comBYLINE: ALAN RIQUELMY — to ArticleFort Benning, GAA military police evidence custodian accused of stealing $1,300 in cash from his job pleaded guilty Wedne...

Morgan County Citizen, morgancountycitizen.comBYLINE: Patrick Yost, EditorLink to ArticleMadison, GAPot, cocaine, meth and prescription narcotics taken from evidenceFour people are in custody and more arrests may be coming in...

CatWalkChatt, walkermessenger.comBYLINE: Matt LedgerWalker County, GAThomas Scott DavisA civilian employee of the Walker County Sheriff’s Office is facing arrest following a GBI investigation that began Monday.An arrest warra...

Chattanooga Times Free Press, timesfreepress.comBYLINE: Staff ReportLink to ArticleWalker County, GAA Walker County Sheriff's Office employee was arrested and charged with 11 counts of felony theft Thursday after a GBI invest...

10WALB, walb.comBYLINE: Jade Bulecza, to ArticleLowndes County, GAValdosta, Georgia -Lowndes County deputies had to scramble to protect drugs and other evidence that's normally safely locked away in ...

WorldNow and WALB, WALB NEWS10, walb.comBYLINE: Stephanie SpringerLink to ArticleTurner County, GAThe Sheriff of Turner County is the target of a criminal investigation.WALB News 10 has learned that Sheriff Roy Wiley is being...

Gwinnett Daily Post, gwinnettdailypost.comBYLINE: Tyler Estep, Staff Writer, County, GACharles Walters LAWRENCEVILLE — Most of the missing cocaine that was the root of a GBI investiga...

Gwinnett Daily Post, gwinnettdailypost.comBYLINE: Josh Green, Staff Writer, , GAPolice dept. maintains chain-of-custody question a non-issueLAWRENCEVILLE — When Lawrenceville polic...

Chattanooga Times Free Press, timesfreepress.com/BYLINE: Tyler JettTrenton, GAPolice say Officer Shawn Chapa is accused of taking drugs from the city's police evidence room. Investigators say Trenton, Ga., police officer Shaw...